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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1016

2

964

3

913

4

Go 2 Draft Designs

909

5

Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

858

6

Bye bye BetterSlack

839

7

DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

762

8

LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces

682

9

EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time

602

10

An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography

569

Top Ask HN

1

How to organize personal knowledge?

403

2

What do you struggle with?

365

3

Have you built a house?

356

4

Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

129

5

Which hackers should I be following these days?

90

6

Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?

76

7

What are some of the best life hacks you use?

68

8

What websites do you check each morning?

67

9

Reading recommendations for understanding food allergies?

56

10

I want to be a 40h/week intermediate developer.How do I stay employable?

47

Top Show HN

1

I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

1072

2

Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support

334

3

Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C

144

4

2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal

135

5

Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical

91

6

A smarthome dashboard concept using zircle-ui

90

7

De-sk, modular office desk system

86

8

BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better

80

9

Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams

63

10

Create a restaurant website in one click

55

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How the Dutch created a casual biking culture

388

2

Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

324

3

$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft

287

4

A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use

218

5

FCC can define markets with only one ISP as “competitive,” court rules

157

6

Google donates money to help run the Kubernetes infrastructure

152

7

Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

133

8

Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers Fired for Unionizing

132

9

OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents

111

10

Hackers sell data of 130M Chinese hotel guests on dark web for 8 Bitcoin

107

News [?]

1

EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time

602

2

Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study

478

3

Teens who refuse to use social media

453

4

Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

449

5

California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045

407

6

Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers

389

7

Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture

336

8

Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact

310

9

Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among the young

303

10

Modi’s Cash Crackdown Failed, Indian Bank Data Shows

300

Scientific publications [?]

1

How to print an electric motor

167

2

Meal frequency and timing in health and disease

145

3

Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape

142

4

Egypt says village found in Nile Delta predated pharaohs

87

5

Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky

71

6

A new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals

62

7

Maps of subjective feelings

40

8

Effects of Adaptogens on the Central Nervous System (2010)

34

9

An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sort

33

10

Chromogeometry (2008)

30

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

858

2

The Performance Cost Of Spectre/Meltdown/Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux

147

3

Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset

133

4

A new kernel polling interface

129

5

Dear Venmo: Update Your Privacy Settings

78

6

An introduction to the Julia language, part 1

78

7

Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech

76

8

C considered dangerous

45

9

What does the GDPR actually mean for startups?

40

10

Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 and Von Neumann

23

Tech blogs [?]

1

Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls

518

2

GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development

356

3

Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On

177

4

AMD Announces Dual-Vega Radeon Pro V340 Card with 32GB of ECC HBM Memory

127

5

This is ‘iPhone XS’

15

6

Apple Watch Series 4 leaks

7

7

California Passes Net Neutrality Bill

7

8

Apple Accidentally Leaks Upcoming Apple Watch Models with Larger Displays

4

9

Linux fu: modernize your command line

4

10

Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and Lambda for automated UI testing (2017)

59

2

AWS: Rust Expands Its Reach at RustConf 2018

11

3

Announcing the AWS Amplify CLI: Easily build sophisticated app backends on AWS

5

4

Create a Serverless Workflow with AWS Step Functions

5

5

Building a React Front End for Service Catalog with AWS Amplify

4

6

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Developer Preview

3

7

Product Marketing Debunked. The Essential Go-To-Market Guide

3

8

AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources

2

9

Malmo, Minecraft and Machine Learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann

2

10

Run Your Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with Amazon EKS

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides]

312

2

We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out?

130

3

The Communist Cookbook That Defined Prague’s Cuisine

69

4

How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints from University Libraries

63

5

IP Address Is Not Enough to Identify Pirate, US Court of Appeals Rules

63

6

What lives inside fog water droplets

37

7

The Cowboy Cartographer Who Loved California

36

8

MALD-X Advanced Air Launched Decoy Test Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

27

9

Beware of Other-Optimizing (2009)

19

10

New $299 electric bicycle is ultra-affordable and even airline compliant

14

Science News [?]

1

Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies

281

2

Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time

110

3

When antibiotics turn toxic

89

4

A Better Way to Cancel Noise

80

5

The Code-Breaking Women Who Unmasked Soviet Spies

63

6

'Generous’ approach to replication confirms many social science findings

55

7

Largest brain imaging study identifies drivers of brain aging

52

8

Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?

52

9

Silver Coins Lead to One of the Earliest Roman Sites in Yorkshire

48

10

Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable? (2016)

44

Social [?]

1

A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]

396

2

Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter

332

3

SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx RealityEngine² [video]

306

4

Lego Axle Sorter [video]

213

5

Terry Davis, Author of TempleOS, has passed away [unconfirmed, mods please rm]

164

6

The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303. Why?

162

7

Can you use the terminal for everything? [video]

156

8

Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow [video]

98

9

Divisiveness is efficient for watch time, and watch time leads to ads

85

10

Daniel Stenberg: Now at 134 days since visa application

78

Github repos and gists [?]

1

LiteTree: SQLite with Branches

343

2

React Fire: Modernizing React DOM

287

3

Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night

272

4

VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing

266

5

PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

234

6

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Depth in 60 Days

189

7

A collection of botnet source codes, unorganized, for educational purposes

186

8

CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)

158

9

Lerna relicences to protest ICE

143

10

133

Wikipedia [?]

1

Abelian sandpile model

66

2

34

3

33

4

27

5

Monkey selfie copyright dispute

8

6

Isochrone curve

4

7

Proper Cake Cutting Algorithm

3

8

Pointer swizzling

3

9

Fast inverse square root

3

10

The Magnus Effect

3

Blogs [?]

1

How to teach yourself hard things

434

2

How to Design for the Modern Web

227

3

The Camera Is the Lidar

200

4

People Hacks for Technical Leads

172

5

Serverless Best Practices

149

6

The Performance Cost of CORS Requests on Single-Page Applications

120

7

Why We Should Watch Less News

106

8

Stop future-proofing software

96

9

The Big 5.0: Transit app gets a makeover

65

10

Things I Learned Reading the Same Book 100 Times Over 10 Years

37

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why don't C++ compilers do better constant folding?

3

2

What does a production ready Google Cloud Function look like?

2

3

JavaScript sorts numbers alphabetically

2

4

In Vim how can I search and replace every other match?

2

5

How to Set Focus to TextBox in UserControl in Page in UWP?

1

6

Is it possible to define a shell script in c#?

1

7

Why is whitespace sometimes needed around metacharacters? [StackOverflow, 2014]

1

Substack [?]